Warper-comb for coarse yarns.



ATLNTED MAY 16, 1905. A. E. RHOADES.

WARPER 00MB FOR GOARSE YARNS. I

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 6 1905.

UNIT D STATES .ra'tenteol May 16, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO E. RHOADES, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO I DRAPERCOMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MAINE.

WARPER -OOMB FOR COARSE YARNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 790,077, dated May 16,1905.

'Application filed March 6, 1905 Serial No. 248,417.

To all whom it ntay concern.-

Be it known that I, ALoNzo E. RHoADEs, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Hopedale, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts,have invented an Improvement in WVarper-Combs for Coarse Yarns, of whichthe following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings,is aspecification, like characters on the drawings representing likeparts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel comb forwarpers, slashers, and similar apparatus, particularly adapted for usewith la'rgeor coarse yarns, whereby a clearer and wider passage for theyarn is provided between the dents or guides of the comb withoutincreasing the length thereof.

The novel features of my invention will be fully described in thesubjoined specification,

and'particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective detail of a sufficient portion of awarper-comb to be understood with one form of my invention embodiedtherein. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a transversesection of the comb on the line 3 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a transversesection on the line 4 4:, Fig. 2, looking down.

I have shown herein the opposite ends of the dents or guides asmountedin holding-bars B B of any suitable construction and forming'nopart per se of my present invention, the dents being made of thin flatmetallic strips 1, set in the holders with their fiat faces parallel. Asbest shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the dents are straight at their endportions, and their central portions are curved outward orlongitudinally convexed, such portions of adjacent dents beingoppositely turnedthat is, one set or series of dents have their curvedportions 2 turned to the right, Fig. 3, and the distance between theends of the dents.

tween the adjacent dents of either series at the curved portions thereofwill be greatly -1ncreased ln'wldth, affording a much easier passage forcoarse yarns, while not increasing the length of the comb as a whole orthe The warp-yarns can also be much more readily drawn in with theconstruction herein shown than in combs where the dents are closertogether at the portions through which the yarns My invention is notrestricted to the precise construction herein shown nor to anyparticular form of holding means for the dents.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a warper-comb, a series of dents or guides outwardly curvedbetween their ends, the curved portions of adjacent dents beingoppositely turned.

2. In a warper-comb,a series of dents curved outward at their centralportions, the curved portions of adjacent dents being oppositely turned.

3. In a warper-oomb, a series of thin, flat dents arranged inparallelism and outwardly curved at their central portions, the saidportions of adjacent, dents j being oppositely turned. a v

4:. In a warper-oomb, two series of thin, flat dents arranged inalternation and with their flat faces parallel, one series of dentsbeing longitudinally conveXed and the alternating series similarlycurved in theopposite direc- ALONZO E. RHOADES.

Witnesses:

GEORGE OTIS DRAPER, ERNEST W. WOOD.

